KPMG LINK Work Force
Your passport to powering
global mobility programs
and processes.
K P M G LINK Wo rk Force
KPMG LINK Work Force
reinvents the way you
manage your global
workforce
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Welcome
to the world of
KPMG LINK
Work Force.
Breaking down borders by streamlining
processes, gathering and analyzing data,
and consolidating the management of your
mobility program.
Stay connected, minimize risk,
and manage workflow.
KPMG LINK Work Force: Your goals,
your processes, and tasks in a single,
streamlined technology solution.
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Breaking down Borders with
KPMG LINK Work Force
There’s little doubt that managing a globally mobile workforce is a
significant challenge. KPMG LINK Work Force breaks down the borders
that exist between you, your employees and your vendors offering a
single technology solution to make managing your global workforce
easy, effective and transparent. Whether your business is small, large,
centralized or decentralized, you need the right people in the right place at
the right time. And that’s when the ‘assignment lifecycle’ challenges begin.
You can better prepare for and reconcile tax and payroll issues,
compensation incentives and assignment structuring by preparing cost
projections while streamlining assignment initiation activities.
Employees and vendors can leverage the same system to review
and update information and then complete necessary tax and travel
information and action tasks assigned to them.
By doing so you can keep costs down and help ensure all issues relating
to data collection, reporting, compensation and payroll, are dealt with
quickly and efficiently.
Your job is to manage the complexities of a geographically diverse
workforce. We have the tools to get the job done right.
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Your KPMG LINK
Work Force Tools:
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Global payroll facilitation
Business traveller risk assessment
Equity sourcing and tracking
Assignment cost projection
Global mobility program management
Tax and regulatory compliance
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Tax and
regulatory
compliance
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Did you know
KPMG LINK Work Force is designed to meet the needs of multiple stakeholder
groups with one system. Whether you are a program manager, employee, or
service provider, it is designed to help ensure data integrity, enhance the sharing
of information, and drive efficiencies with optional workflow integration.
Challenges for your company
Managing global tax compliance presents challenges for both program
managers and employees, from regulatory considerations to the filing of
tax returns.
KPMG LINK Work Force’s primary goal is to streamline compliance
processes ensuring that each user accomplishes needed activities in a
single, dedicated portal.
Tool benefits
Transparency: Efficiently track tasks from various stakeholders in the
mobility process. Stay on top of multiple work streams and action items
in real time, in one place.
Data and Analytics: Create new, value-add reports with information related
to both tax compliance and assignment management. Advanced reporting
engine provides high-level, graphic reporting on each users dashboard with
additional drill-down reporting options.
Workflow: Management of items has never been easier with integrated
workflow. Workflow drives you through needed actions step-by-step helping
ensure that your tasks are accomplished at the right time and in the most
streamlined way possible.
Case Study
KPMG LINK Work Force allows companies of all sizes to report on and
manage their globally mobile employee populations. With more than
100,000 distinct users, KPMG LINK Work Force provides the right tools,
in the right place, at the right time regardless of your role in the global
mobility process.
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Global mobility
program
management
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Did you know
KPMG LINK Enterprise Assignment Manager has been in operation since 1999
and is now used to manage assignments for over 100 multinational companies.
This tool is continually updated with latest tax and legislative changes provided
by KPMG’s worldwide network of firms and helps you manage the end-to- end
assignment process from candidate selection to payroll instruction and
compensation collection.
Challenges for your company
Whether small, large, centralized or decentralized, businesses need the
right people in the right place at the right time.
KPMG LINK Enterprise Assignment Manager (LINK Enterprise)
streamlines and simplifies your mobility management by providing an
end-to-end process and data management solution with integrated
workflow and robust reporting functionality.
Tool benefits
Pre-assignment: Before an international assignment, your company
can better prepare for and manage tax and payroll issues, compensation
incentives and assignment structuring. Prepare robust cost projections
with company-specific policies and granular allowance calculations.
During assignment: Facilitate the global payroll and tax compliance process
and manage the administrative side of the move to track and keep costs down
and ensure all issues are quickly and efficiently addressed.
Post assignment: Once an assignment is finished, monitor and report on the
many various post-assignment activities and transactions.
Case Study
LINK Enterprise has helped a global networking manufacturer reorganize
their global mobility processes and put controls around their program.
Prior to implementation, their system was heavily outsourced with
data stored in multiple systems with multiple vendors. LINK Enterprise
now holds all demographic data, automates both cost projections and
assignment documentation, and helps facilitate payroll instructions and
global compensation accumulation through global payroll interfaces.
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Assignment
cost projection
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Cost Projector enables you to conveniently model costs for tax and social
insurance, different allowances and tax reimbursement structures for individuals
or for groups of employees.
Challenges for your company
Any business that sends employees overseas faces numerous planned
and unforeseen costs, including the time-consuming, tedious and
complex nature of estimating them.
KPMG LINK Cost Projector (Cost Projector) helps multi-national
companies quantify the assignment and tax costs associated with
sending your employees on both short and long-term international
assignments.
Tool benefits
Uncover hidden costs: Keep your company’s budgets under control,
ensure all costs are identified and incorporated into your planning.
Unravel tax issues: Prepare your business for the ongoing costs of
international assignments with a clear view of how changing tax laws and
policies can affect your bottom line.
Case Study
A successful data storage firm has been a long-time licensee of Cost
Projector. The robust tax logic and easy-to-use interface have decreased
their assignment cost projection cycles and have helped increase
accuracy for projecting the cost of international assignments. Additionally,
Cost Projector’s new online interface allows their global team to create
and share projections across geographic boundaries more easily and
securely.
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Equity
sourcing and
tracking
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Did you know
Your company can save substantial time and money while managing a
complicated global process quickly and easily. By facilitating understanding of
global equity compensation, you can ensure execution while providing clarity
to employees. KPMG’s commitment to automation means that you will always
remain current.
Challenges for your company
The combination of greater employee mobility and an increasing focus
on performance-based incentive compensation creates real compliance
challenges for your company.
Tool benefits
Commitment to automation: Unmatched country and plan coverage,
functionality, configurability, flexibility and continual investment in system
enhancements.
End-to-end management: From data collection through to output of
results, your company will benefit from clarity and total process support.
Scalability: You can be up and running quickly no matter what you
currently do or the size of your global footprint.
Case Study
A SEC registered audit client of KPMG which engages our fiercest GET
competitor for core services globally chose GET after a tender process
involving all Big four firms. The audit relationship required the client
to go through a challenging internal approval process, but they were
able to convince the stakeholder that the functionality of GET and the
commitment of the team provided far greater long-term value to their
organization.
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Business
traveller risk
assessment
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Business Traveller tracks and assesses business travel risks. In the past 12
months, KPMG has assessed more than 2 million business travellers.
Challenges for your company
Multi-national companies need to have visibility of their employees’ travel
and activities. They also need to understand the risk and compliance
implications of travel, both for the company and the individual.
KPMG LINK Business Traveller (Business Traveller) helps companies and
employees quantify the risk associated with entry requirements, income
tax, social tax, and permanent establishment.
Tool benefits
Track employee travel: Track the travel of all employees, including onthe-go tracking via the mobile app.
Instant travel assessments: Receive instant trip analysis and
guidance – fast, accurate and tailored tax, social security and immigration
assessments.
Pre-travel assessments and post-travel compliance: View real-time travel
assessments for an employee who is contemplating a business trip.
Management and compliance reporting: View management
information which is available 24/7 through a live digital dashboard and
generate compliance reports detailing issues and next steps.
Keep up to date with regulation: Receive regular updates to tax, social
security and immigration rules and logic.
Case Study
A multi-national conglomerate leverages the system to assess travel risks
prior to employees leaving the ground. This has reduced the risk of travel
as well as the amount spent by the company to remedy travel related
compliance risks.
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Payroll
management
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Global Payroll Manager is the newest in KPMG’s suite of tools to manage the endto-end global mobility process. Designed as a compensation collection and payroll
reconciliation tool, it will streamline the collection of payroll data from multi-national
jurisdictions regardless of payroll cutoff dates and creates detailed reconciliation
reports tied to your specific pay codes ensuring that you track and correctly report
compensation throughout the year.
Challenges for your company
Collection and reporting of global compensation for your traveling
employees is an arduous task to say the least.
KPMG LINK Global Payroll Manager helps streamline this process
leveraging automated data feeds, configurable cut-off dates and a
reconciliation engine allowing you to see discrepancies in your payroll
instruction and actual pay amounts.
Tool benefits
Global compensation collection and management: Streamline and
simplify your payroll reporting with configurable cut-off dates for all payrolls
around the world. Set payroll cutoff dates and reminder messages that are
automatically sent from the systems.
Payroll reconciliations: Reconcile payroll instruction with actually paid
amounts each payroll period allowing you to stay on top of discrepancies in
payroll and allowing you to track those discrepancies helping to ensure that
trailing payments are picked up in future payroll cycles.
Payroll reporting: Create monthly, quarterly and annual payroll statements
based on your chosen output style. Review dashboard reports and
information on your employees’ payroll directly through the KPMG LINK
Work Force dashboard.
Case Study
Companies of all sizes will track and request submission of payroll from all global
locations. Once collected, companies report on compensation and use it to
reconcile against tax reporting forms at the end of the year.
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We’d be more than happy to show you
the suite of KPMG LINK Work Force
technology in a live demonstration. Every
single tool can make the difference.
For further information about this technology and
to apply for a live demonstration, please visit:
kpmg.com/kpmglinkworkforce
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Publication name: KPMG LINK Work Force
Publication number: 132759-G
Publication date: September 2015